Friday, February 23, 2018

Two anti-personnel mines (minas antipersonales) were recovered from suspected members of the Cartel del Golfo (Gulf Cartel) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas on Wednesday, 7 February 2018 by Mexican Army (Ejército Mexicano) (SEDENA) personnel from the Eighth Military Zone (Octava Zona Militar).

Two antipersonnel mines, among other high power weapons drugs and fuel were seized by personnel of the Mexican Army. This occurred in various deployed actions, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. In these events, three people were arrested.

By intensifying the patrol and the search for criminal signs during the last 48 hours, in gaps located in the vicinity of the Rio Grande, the military elements detected hiding places in vacant areas that were hidden among dry brush and garbage.

The personnel of the eighth Military Zone secured 17 assault rifles known as goat horns, two .50 caliber Barret rifles, as well as two antipersonnel mines. In addition, they found a grenade launcher, a special 38 caliber pistol, two ballistic plates for a waistcoat, 55 magazines and 458 rifle cartridges.

Five vehicles were also confiscated, a cistern pipe, 45 doses of white powder with characteristics of cocaine, a communication radio, 21 thousand liters of hydrocarbon and three people were arrested in flagrante delicto.

Reynosa, Tamaulipas, February 7, 2018- Staff of the Eighth Zone Military secured a large quantity of weapons, loaders, cartridges and vehicles, as well as doses of white powder with the characteristics of cocaine and 21 thousand liters of hydrocarbon in various actions carried out in gaps located in the vicinity of the Rio Grande, in Tamaulipas territory.

By intensifying the patrolling and searching for criminal signs during the last 48 hours, elements of the Mexican Army detected hiding places in vacant places that were hidden among dry brush and garbage. Three people were arrested in flagrante delicto.

2. (U//FOUO) ON 10 SEPTEMBER 2009 IN APIZACO, TLAXCALA, MEXICAN FORCES
RECOVERED AN UN-DETONATED IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED) CONSISTING
OF A CLAYMORE MINE, A VARTA LONGLIFE BATTERY, AND A SIMPLE MECHANICAL
ALARM-CLOCK AS THE INITIATOR. THE MINE WAS TRACED BACK TO EL SALVADOR
MILITARY STOCKS AS A U.S. FOREIGN MILITARY SALE (FMS) FROM THE 1980S. LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA INTENDED TO DETONATE THE MINE AT THE SEPTEMBER 2009 INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE IN APIZACO. **Following Sentence Not Released Per (b)(3):10 USC 424**

Engagement between Mexican military personnel and traffickers who had a
large amount of marijuana and military weapons and hardware in their
possession.

The municipalities of Teul de González Ortega and Florencia de Benito
Juárez in the state of Zacatecas. Military Region V and XI Military
Zone.

January 26-27, 2012.
The photograph of the weaponry recovered and shown on the tarp is from La Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA).*Numbers were added during the writing of the tactical note for forensic analysis of the seized weaponry.

Alleged members of the Cartel del Golfo (Gulf Cartel) were interdicted near illegal petroleum taps (tomas clandestinas) proximate to the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo by Mexican Army (Ejército Mexicano) (SEDENA) personnel from the Eighth Military Zone (Octava Zona Militar). The SEDENA enforcement operations augmented similar operations by the Federal Police (Policía Federal) and la Marina (SEMAR) supporting Fuerza Tamaulipas (Tamaulipas State Police) to combat cartel violence and fuel theft. The state of Tamaulipas and the Reynosa plaza have been intensely contested in recent months and the area is considered a cartel battlefield (campo de guerra) characterized by gunfights, blockades (narcobloqueos), and explosions.[1]

In this incident, two Claymore Anti-personnel Mines were recovered in
an underground weapons cache. Imagery of one of the mines clearly shows
it to be a U.S. M18A1 mine (or exact foreign copy) along with
accompanying electrical wire (detonating) and storage reel and a
electric impulse hand-triggered firing device. This is not the first
case where anti-personnel mines (minas antipersonales) have
been discovered in the hands of Mexican criminal cartels. Table 1
describes three specific cases dating back to 2009. Additional
statistics regarding interdictions are contained in the following text.
Thus far, all reported cases of cartel possession of anti-personnel
mines have resulted in interdictions and seizures of the devices.
This incident (7 February 2018) also highlights the downside of hasty
news analysis using popular terminology, as seen in a recent Breitbart Texas article related to it:

While the Gulf Cartel and other Mexican criminal organizations have
used grenades and Russian-made RPGs in the past, this appears to be an
early case of U.S. military-grade landmines near the border.[2]

Claymores are not traditional landmines—they are a command-detonated
directional anti-personnel mines mounted vertically on stakes (not
buried horizontally in the ground).[3] No land mines—anti-personnel or
anti-vehicular—are known to have been utilized by or recovered from the
cartels in Mexico. Nor is this an ‘early warning incident,’ given that
open source reporting of an earlier cartel claymore incident took place 6
years ago in Zacatecas (or even 8½ years ago in Apizaco, based on newer
information released by the DIA).[4] While some concern exists that the
claymores in possession of the cartels were found just south of the
U.S.-Mexico border, such military anti-personnel mines have also
recently been found in a buried weapons cache in a far larger quantity
on the U.S. side of the border in Pine, Arizona.[5]

According to news reports citing the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), Mexican authorities decommissioned 18 anti-personnel mines in the last days of the Calderón Sexenio ending in November 2012.
The PGR determined that the majority of the antipersonnel mines they
captured were M18A1 Claymore mines that were shipped to El Salvador
during the 1980s and 90s. The devices were decommissioned from the hands
of various criminal groups in Baja California, Tlaxcala, Chiapas,
Tamaulipas, Michoacán, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Tabasco. Drug cartels are
believed to have purchased these devices in El Salvador. Similar
devices have also been used by guerillas, the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional), and criminal groups in Colombia.[6]

In addition, according to SIEDO data, between September 2014 and June
2015, 66 explosive artifacts or munitions were confiscated from cartels
in Mexico. Various types of anti-personnel mines accounted for 23% of
that total.[7] Anti-personnel mines have several potential applications
by cartels. They can be used to protect personnel, safe houses,
laboratories, and illicit shipments of drugs and stolen fuel from
competitors and the police and military. They can also be used to
enhance the effectiveness of narcobloqueos (blockades) and protect the sites of illicit fuel taps (tomas clandestinas)
and be deployed offensively to create “killing ground” in which to
ambush Mexican federal police and military personnel. Concerning the
deadly potentials of these devices:

The M18A1 “Claymore” Anti-personnel Mine carries an explosive weight
of 682-grams (1.50-lbs. of Composition C-4). It will deliver steel
fragments over a 60° fan-shaped pattern that is 50-meters wide and
2-meters in height, and is effective up to a range of 100-meters. These
blast fragments are still dangerous up to 250-meters forward of the
mine.[8]

The proliferation of anti-personnel mines into the hands of drug
cartels and gangs has disturbing potentials. While anti-personnel mines
are not unknown in non-international armed conflict settings, having
been used by FARC and ELN guerillas in Colombia for example, their
increasing presence in Mexico can potentially lead to their actual field
use, ratcheting up the already high levels of casualties and violence
taking place. The proliferation of anti-personnel mines from guerrillas
to BACRIM (bandas criminals emergentes) in Colombia has already
been noted.[9] In addition, Brazilian gangs and Colombian BACRIM have
been recruiting demobilized FARC commandos; it would not be a surprise
if they bring TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) involving use of
anti-personnel mines with them in the future.[10]

28 comments:

Concerning claymore mines: If you can sneak up to yo enemy without alerting him to yo presence. They can be turned around to face yo enemy instead of having them face you. Should you be to afraid to risk it don’t hesitate to use livestock. Better they be slaughtered than you. Either way it’s a BLAST to see it all. - Sol Prendido

10:02 GI's in Vietnam used various methods to foil any trickster Viet Cong tinkering with the claymores. Sometimes the claymores was placed in a tree. Not only did this prevent it from being turned around, but at this elevation the claymores could blow off heads rather than legs. Secondly the GIs would booby-trap claymores with hand grenades primed with zero-delay fuzes.

4:39 You may have grown up but your thoughts echo the fantasy realms of a child. If humans were angels there would be no need for weapons. When the bad men come for your ass Jesus Christ won't help you, but Mr. Colt or Mr. Kalashnikov might. When you need a pig for the pot the animal won't obligingly present himself for braising. Yet a bullet to the skull will overcome any misgivings he may have of fueling your metabolism.

@4:39 No one ever picks up a weapon and thinks to himself yea I’ll go out and hurt someone today just because. No. Shit doesn’t play out like that. Many are unwittingly thrown into conflict. - Sol Prendido

So 7.07, that claymore ended up where it was because of unwittingly people? No, they knew exactly what it would do, at EVERY step of its journey. Even if I "unwittingly shoot or harm a bad guy" I am still liable for the negative payback, even though the guy was totally "bad" and my intentions "good". Good vs evil doesn't exist, only enlightenment vs unenlightenment. Karma, payback, the energies are impersonal and don't care if you feed granny 3 times a day. Or leave her to starve. How do I know this? I fought unenlightened beings with force, violence, and I had EXACTLY the same meted out back to me years down the line - I was indignant at first, then ashamed, now I see the impersonal nature of the payback. At the end of the day using violence brought me to their level, I would have avoided the pain if I'd have used enlightened methods to stop the " bad guys" satanists I was fighting. Some people might avoid giving payback "I don't want to respond in kind" " they ain't worth it" whatever but the energies are there, impersonal, and few people get this until its too late. Peace.

10.57 do you need to shoot an apple in the head to eat it? Bread? Cheese? Wheat? Beans? Lol comedy man. Shooting hogs ain't pleasant and one day the suffering will phuck you right back. Nothing personal, just business, buddy. Ever wondered why slaughterhouses STINK? Become vegetarian for 8 weeks, detox, OK then sit in a burger king for an hour. Breathe deep. Lol. Try it.

@4:44 Since you mention the energies (which many will deny exist) did you come across the orbs as well. Shall we then say the Nephilim continue to exist? It is they we fight against. And we all know our places in life. - Sol Prendido

Our kindly CIA originally shipped these kinds of terrorist weapons to the Latin Americas in the 80s 90s. God only knows what pain they have caused. Very Little surprise at seeing them acquired by narcos.

Airplane bomber, Cuban refugee Luis posada carriles used to blow up things in LatinAmerica, is wanted on a few counteies, but is am American hero of the US extreme right and enjoys presidential pardons and immunity, like Orlando Bosch and Felix ismael Rodriguez mendigutia who is also a drug trafficking intelectual murderer of Kiki Camarena...The problem is that while lowly people are supposed to fail and stumble, these high falutin' luminaries are not supposed to, but fail is all they do...

On Iraq the rebels were armed with IEDS and technologies to make more of them and ited to about 15 more years of war...--in mexico it will help as an excuse for more militarized polesia operations against innocent civilians because narcos, cartels and sicarios del narco got old, now it is against terrorists and their copy 80s disco era claymores, el pedo es seguirla cagando...Maybe expert counter-insurgent torturer kidnapper murderer lt col James Steele has an idea of what is going on, he armed some of this shirt when he was in El Salvador earning his human rights abuser accusations, some say he lives nearby in Tejas, after earning more accusations from his Iraq human rights abuses as a private contractor for the occupying US and allies.

Some racism is just jokes, but most racists are a joke from top to bottom, one dead giveaway, racists can't laugh when they are spouting their blasphemous slanderous epithets.The are levels to everything, the racism of some pointing fingers at "the Mexicans" everytime they mention "them" is obviously undeniable, we are lucky most Americans have not been victims of brainwash, propaganda, mind reading, programming, Kompromat and pereztroika...

@6:57 My source for this information is Sappers In The Wire: The Destruction of Firebase Mary Ann by Keith William Nolan. The frag fuses were replaced by zero delay smoke grenade fuses and the frag was placed beneath the claymores. What say now?

Damn, in yo face player haters! Playboy rstevenpage just confirmed what I’d said. But what would I know. I’m always being accused of being a fake soldier. Keep thinking that folks. You just make my job that much easier. - Sol Prendido